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squirreltown
Roku Guru
13 years ago

Dropbox https

trying to play a video from Dropbox in the customvideoplayer example in the SDK
I know i need to put the cert somewhere. Is this the right place?:
	
    this.player.SetMessagePort(this.port)
    this.player.SetLoop(true)
	 this.player.SetPositionNotificationPeriod(1)
     this.player.SetDestinationRect(this.layout.left)
	this.player.SetCertificatesFile("common:/certs/ca-bundle.crt")
    this.player.InitClientCertificates()
    this.player.SetCertificatesDepth(3)
   
    this.player.SetContentList([{
       
         Stream: { url: "https://www.dropbox.com/s/5sf90bps47yd009/flexiflyer.mp4" }
         StreamFormat: "mp4"
        SwitchingStrategy: "full-adaptation"
    }])
    
     this.player.Play()


    return this
End Sub


Here is the error showing in the debugger:
11, 0: startup progress
 11, 66: startup progress
 11, 0: Service does not support range requests.
 11, 132: startup progress
 9,-1: There was an error in the HTTP response.  This could mean that malformed HTTP headers or an HTTP error code was returned.
 16, 0: Playback completed.
 11, 0: end of playlist


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2 Replies

  • RokuChris's avatar
    RokuChris
    Roku Employee
    13 years ago
    I don't think the cert is the problem. The clue is this line:

    11, 0: Service does not support range requests.


    Videos must be hosted on servers that support range requests.

    But in this case it's a bit more involved. The URL you're using does not point directly to an mp4 file. As best I can tell, it points to an HTML page, but sometimes will get redirected to the actual mp4 depending on the user-agent header you send with the request. Below are two curl requests to your URL. One gets redirected and one doesn't. And I was able to play the video using the URL that the second one redirects to, but I just copy/pasted

    You might be able to set a custom user-agent on your roVideoScreen to get it to work. Or you might have to find a way to resolve that redirect manually in BrightScript before passing it to the video screen. In the latter case a good place to start might be roURLTansfer's HEAD request capabilities: http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/ ... dasDynamic

    curl --user-agent "Roku" --head "https://www.dropbox.com/s/5sf90bps47yd009/flexiflyer.mp4"
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Server: nginx
    Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 00:07:02 GMT
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    Connection: keep-alive
    set-cookie: locale=en; expires=Mon, 28 May 2018 00:07:02 GMT; Path=/
    set-cookie: gvc=Mjk4Mjg0MzQ4ODMwNzU5OTA4NzgzMzIyNjY1NDY2MzA0MzE4MjU2; expires=Mon, 28 May 2018 00:07:02 GMT; Path=/; httponly
    set-cookie: t=Dq--a7UOc74bYH2wZT7sjgIr; Domain=dropbox.com; expires=Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:07:02 GMT; Path=/; secure; httponly
    strict-transport-security: max-age=2592000; includeSubDomains
    x-server-response-time: 94
    x-dropbox-request-id: c05e15a1c206f836
    pragma: no-cache
    cache-control: no-cache
    x-dropbox-http-protocol: None
    x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
    X-RequestId: 1ed88dd864195fa8800591b9da6f5a4a

    curl --head "https://www.dropbox.com/s/5sf90bps47yd009/flexiflyer.mp4"
    HTTP/1.1 302 FOUND
    Server: nginx
    Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 00:07:17 GMT
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    Connection: keep-alive
    set-cookie: locale=en; expires=Mon, 28 May 2018 00:07:17 GMT; Path=/
    set-cookie: gvc=MTA0NDIzOTM0MDE5MjQ3Mjc4OTI4NzY2MjM0OTAwNTg3MzY2NTQ0; expires=Mon, 28 May 2018 00:07:17 GMT; Path=/; httponly
    set-cookie: t=XncbJQep7QIcFVoUKzvKVjNP; Domain=dropbox.com; expires=Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:07:17 GMT; Path=/; secure; httponly
    strict-transport-security: max-age=2592000; includeSubDomains
    location: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/5sf90bps47yd009/flexiflyer.mp4?token_hash=AAEbGaE8V7PKk99a4LdlRDe8S8YS0HsSKIqEMMqtTys_Rw
    pragma: no-cache
    cache-control: no-cache
    x-dropbox-http-protocol: None
    x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
    x-dropbox-request-id: 56fa4500a5551724
    X-RequestId: 9196d9a413f4d89b376b51909055d568
  • squirreltown's avatar
    squirreltown
    Roku Guru
    13 years ago
    Thank you very much Chris, I wouldn't have figured any of that out.
    I'll get on it.